Oscar de la Renta

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

My customers are successful workingwomen.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.